white blood cell

Questions about white blood cell

What does white blood cell mean?

white blood cell means "blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system".

What is another word for white blood cell?

Close synonyms include leukocyte, leucocyte, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is white blood cell a common word?

white blood cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.